The ongoing adventures of Eric, Melanie, and Jonah (plus the fur babies)

12.11.2011

Jonah the Bookworm Has Street Cred

What's that Jonah?

Blog time? Alright. Let's do this.

Melanie mentioned in a previous post that we read to Jonah every day. Although I have read Jonah portions of The Economist and some continuing legal education materials (he was unimpressed), we normally read him kids books we still have from when we were little and ones we borrow from the library. (The Sandra Boynton books are the best.) He also has several cloth books, as you can see. Jonah loves nothing more than devouring a good book, which he takes a bit too literally at times.

It's been two weeks since Thanksgiving, which for the P family, generally means one thing ... another Thanksgiving. We didn't get many pictures, unfortunately. However, Jonah did get acquainted with Uncle Nate, whose magic with children knows no bounds.

It being two weeks since Thanksgiving also means it's close to Christmas, so we put up our tree, with Jonah's help.

Jonah has graduated from hating baths with the fire of 1,000 suns, to being pretty indifferent to baths and generally enjoying the post-bath snuggle fest. Thank god.

We also took Jonah to an art show at the Longmont Museum, Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas. http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/museum/exhibits/street-cred.htm It is awesome. We told ourselves that Jonah would like the bright colors and contrast, which seemed to be true. But let's face it, this probably falls into the category of things parents like and make their kids do. (Look out Jonah, there'll likely be more mandatory cultural experiences your parents will find interesting coming your way. You can thank us when you're in college.) Of course, we're playing with fire here. When Jonah starts drawing on the walls, we'll only have ourselves to blame.